My answers to the class discussions.

In Chapter VII of Kors and Peters, our wonderfully talented classmates posed the question: If God is the source of all the magic then how can magic be considered blasphemous? Which by the way I think is a really great question and if you guys have a thing or two to say about it please feel free to comment!

I feel like it is the way you use the magic powers that makes it good or bad or neutral. For example, Jesus did many miracles that showed the power of God like make the dead come back to life, cure diseases, turn water to wine and etc... But i feel like because Jesus was the son of God and everybody knew that, they considered that a miracle because Jesus didn't like kill people with his powers and he could actually perform these miracles in front of people as proof. Now if people did not know he was the son of God, like if Jesus just appeared out of nowhere and started doing this then I feel like the people would have said otherwise.

 Source: http://www.stpaulsyg.com/home/p=921 & http://beachristian4rapture.blogspot.com/2012/04/miracles-of-jesus-christ-which-were.html

So then when you compare it to this time period (the early 1500's), I think that the people were too quick to judge the ones that were blamed with sorcery. Did they have solid proof that the ones being accused of sorcery or heresy were killing babies and people? Like did they see with their own eyes or as a mass of group? I don't think so. I feel like they were just going off on speculation and lies and rumors of what they heard from other people. And since the things that they heard were blasphemous, they were conditioned to think like this from their early childhood to their adult life which affected how they lived their lives. For example, the sorcery detected at Orleans was just from a letter that someone wrote and I don't consider that as enough evidence for sorcery. I need to see the evil magic with my own eyes!

Source: https://drawingbynumbers.org/data-design-basics/note-1-where-is-your-evidence

To them magic was considered blasphemous because they were conditioned to think that way and no one dared to say the opposite. Also because they considered that the power did not come from God like it did to Jesus. To incorporate Olivia's last blog question "why did the mid evil folks killed their own kin?" I just think they were too scared to go against their society and the conformity that was going on at the time. I also think it was kind of too late by that time to turn back and even if they knew that killing was wrong and that there was no such thing as evil magic killing babies and humans and livestock, there was nothing they could do and say or they will be killed as well so they sadly just let people die.